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Youth and those young at heart ventured to the University June 26 and 27, 2017 for Grandparents’ University — an experience for children ages 7-14 and their grandparents. Offerings for the 175 participants included ecology, cartooning, cooking, aquatic ecology and much more! A favorite among the participants were trips to the Fox River, Bayshore County Park and shooting off rockets.

August 5th marks the conclusion of another successful year of UW-Green Bay’s Grandparents’ University (GPU). This outreach program engages children (aged 7-14) and their grandparents in activities in different “majors” in a college setting. Activities offered include basket weaving, cartoon character drawing, rocket building, improvisation courses and more. GPU is designed to promote higher education to children in the community, while providing a setting in which grandparents and their grandchildren may bond, learn and have fun. Accommodations are offered in the UWGB residence halls, and classes take place in classrooms on campus. See pictures of the GPU class of 2016.

Grandparents and their grandchildren between the ages of 7 and 14 can share their love of learning at the two-day Grandparents’ University summer camp at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

At one of 13 Grandparents’ Universities in the country, UW-Green Bay participants will enjoy the camaraderie of other families, quality time with grandchildren and learning together. Many families make this event their annual reunion for the young cousins each year.

Grandparents’ University takes places Thursday, July 9 and Friday, July 10, offering a unique opportunity for grandparents and their grandchildren to explore together topics of interest and enjoy summer activities on the scenic bayshore campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Registration for Grandparents’ University continues through July 1 on a first-come, first-served basis.

Participants will meet at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, July 9, and the program ends at 2:00 p.m. Friday, July 10, following a graduation ceremony.

The fee for Grandparents’ University is $195 per adult and child pair. The fee includes instruction, activities, a cookout meal on Thursday night, parking, and a t-shirt. Each additional adult is $125 and each additional child is $75.

Grandparents’ University attendees may commute or choose to stay in UW-Green Bay student suite apartments for an additional fee.

We told you here last week about another terrific year for Grandparents’ University, the multigenerational summer camp that recently wrapped up its eighth year at UW-Green Bay. Nearly 200 grandparents and grandkids took part in the 2014 iteration of GPU, taking classes, learning the campus ropes and — most important — spending time together. We’ve collected our favorite interviews and images from this year’s camp, producing a new video and photo gallery from GPU 2014. You can check them out, here:UW-Green Bay feature storyUW-Green Bay photo gallery

Press-Gazette coverage
The Green Bay Press-Gazette was among media outlets covering GPU (we brought you the others Friday), running a front-page centerpiece story in Saturday’s (July 12) newspaper. You can check out that story, along with accompanying video, click here.

There was a class for every interest — and every age — at Grandparents’ University 2014, held July 10-11 on the UW-Green Bay campus.

From nutrition to rocketry, game theory to geology, nearly 200 grandparents and grandchildren enjoyed multigenerational fun in learning during the two-day program.

This was the eighth year for UW-Green Bay’s GPU, which has grown from 80 people in five or six classes to more than double that in 12 different on-campus offerings. Grandparent/grandchild pairs can attend as commuters or spend the overnight in the UW-Green Bay residence halls, offering yet another taste of campus life.

Grandparents’ University at UW-Green Bay continued a proud tradition of multigenerational fun in learning July 10-11, when nearly 200 grandparents and grandkids took part in the eighth annual camp.

“We have 198 people who have registered for Grandparent University,” said Camps Director Mona Christensen. “It’s a two-day program where grandparents and grandkids sign up for a class that they take together.”

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Nine-year-old Calista Wright was attending her first Grandparents’ University with grandma Joanna Cloud.

“It feels very awesome,” Calista said, “because you get to have – because I’ve been having a lot of fun with my grandma.”

Fun is just one aspect of the two-day experience, Christensen said.

“It’s really multifaceted. It’s intergenerational learning, so they’re spending time with each other. They’re learning from each other,” she said. “It isn’t just the adult teaching the grandkid — it’s grandparents learning things that their grandkids know, too. And they’re doing things together in the classrooms.”

GPU veteran Pat Schaetz was happy to be returning for another year, attending with granddaughter Ava.

“We did the nutrition class last year,” Pat Schaetz said. “We did the wellness class, the rocketry class. Next year they’d like to take the cartooning class and there’s so many different things that they could take here. It’s just endless, the learning opportunities for them.”

Those opportunities extend beyond the classroom, Christensen said, as grandchildren get a taste of life on a college campus.

“They’ve experienced living on campus, eating in the University Union, taking classes out here,” she said. “And it’s really not so big. It’s something they can aspire to do in the future and that learning is something they can do for the rest of their lives, event when they get to be old enough to get to be grandparents.

“They just love being together — hands down the most important thing is that we had time to spend, quality time together. It was undistracted time; they could spend time in conversation with each other.”

That rang true for Tina Mercier, who attended camp with her two granddaughters.

“I guess what I’m realizing is,” Mercier said, “the best part of spending time with them — I’m going to start crying — is having talks with them. That’s what’s most precious to me.”

Added Cloud:

“She’s had a good time. I’ve had a good time. So it’s just been a real positive experience.”

Calista, Cloud’s granddaughter, didn’t hesitate when asked what she likes best about her grandmother.

UW-Green Bay’s Grandparents’ University wrapped up another terrific year Friday (July 11), bidding farewell to nearly 200 grandparents and grandkids who took part in this year’s camp. The pairs (and some trios) enjoyed multigenerational fun in learning with course options focused on art, science, wellness, communication and more. They also enjoyed time together, bonding over shared discoveries and a mutual enjoyment of campus and community. Media coverage Thursday included TV news stories from WLUK, Fox 11 and NBC 26. You can check those out below, and we’ll bring you more from GPU next week.WLUK, Fox 11NBC 26

Grandparents’ University, the innovative multigenerational summer camp experience at UW-Green Bay, will welcome 200 grandparents and grandkids ready to have some fun and learn new things during this year’s camp, Thursday and Friday (July 10 and 11). The enjoyable, hands-on classes such as Animals on the Wild Side, Memory-Making Clay Designs, Nutritional Science, Geology, Meteorology and Aerospace, Game Theory and more. We’ll have links to photo and video in a future edition of the Log.

Grandparents and their grandchildren between the ages of 7 and 14 can share their love of learning at the two-day Grandparents’ University summer camp at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

At one of 13 Grandparents’ Universities nationwide, UW-Green Bay participants will enjoy the camaraderie of other families, quality time with grandchildren and learning together. Many families make this event their annual reunion for the young cousins each year.

Grandparents’ University takes places Thursday, July 10 and Friday, July 11, offering a unique opportunity for grandparents and their grandchildren to explore together topics of interest and enjoy summer activities on the scenic bayshore campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Grandparents’ University offers 15 courses from which to choose. Class selections and their instructors include:

Registration for Grandparents’ University continues through July 1 on a first-come, first-served basis.

Participants will meet at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, and the program ends at 2 p.m. Friday, July 11, following a graduation ceremony.

The fee for Grandparents’ University is $189 per adult and child pair. The fee includes instruction, activities, a cookout meal on Thursday night, parking and a t-shirt. Each additional adult is $125 and each additional child is $75. Grandparents’ University attendees may commute or choose to stay in UW-Green Bay student suite apartments for an additional fee.